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WINDOW CORNICE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 713 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WINDOW See also:

CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)

CORNICE , am ornamental framework of See also:

wood or See also:

composition to which window curtains are attached by rods with rings or hooks. Cornices are often gilded and of elaborate See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design, but they are less fashionable in the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century than before it had been discovered that elaborate draperies See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour dust and microbes. Like other pieces of See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, they have reflected See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste as it passed, and many of the carefully constructed examples of the latter See also:

PART

part of the 18th century are still in use in the rooms for which they were made. See also:

CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS (d. 1979)

Chippendale provided a famous See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series still in situ for the See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery at Harewood See also:

House, the valances of which are, like the cornices themselves, of carved and painted wood.

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